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FOIS will have online information pertaining to basic data. Therefore information will be available from the system in real time in the form of Reports and Enquiries.

Reports can be programmed to print at specified time at specific places like the morning operating position. Or they can be programmed to be printed automatically in select yards on the route of the train.

I assign highest importance to continuance of healthy and harmonious tradition of industrial relations across length and breadth of Indian Railways. In recognition of the commitment of the employees to the organisation and their contribution to increasing the productivity, Indian Railways paid the Productivity Linked Bonus equivalent to wages of 78 days for 2010-11.

With the formation and recognition of employees organization the management cannot make unilateral decisions that affect employee relationships.

Decisions relating to policies on employment, transfer ,promotion, training, adoption of latest technology, wages, lay off are no longer can be determined unilaterally by the management and employees unions has to be consulted.

Ministry of Railways publishes two monthly magazines viz. ‘Indian Railways’, in English and ‘Bharatiya Rail’, in Hindi. These magazines publish informative articles on Indian Railways as well as the latest news and developments with photos in IR.

Indian Railways strike of 1974 is a saga of heroism of ordinary railway workers and their families who dared to stand up against the might of the Indian state. It is the most widespread revolt by the working class in independent India and the biggest strike in the history of Indian Railway. How many of us know about this heroic story of the ordinary railwaymen resisting terror unleashed by the Indira Gandhi regime?